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Old 01-02-2004, 08:04 AM   #1 (permalink)
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over and over and over and over

Why is it that classic rock station, top 40 station, top country stations, must play the same songs over and over again. I mean stairway to heaven is a good song....but why can't they play other zep tunes. Pink floyd is a good band...but they did more songs than another brick in the wall.
I mean there is so much good music out there and 99% of the population listens to 1% of the music....WHY????
and then the music industries cries cuz they don't make any money. play something different......

any thoughts anyone??

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Old 01-02-2004, 08:18 AM   #2 (permalink)
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It's because people like what's familiar. Most radio listeners are probably not hardcore music fans. They're people that like to listen on their morning/afternoon drives, while they're in the kitchen or at work, etc. If they hear what's familiar on the radio, they stay on the station. If they stay on the station, tney hear all the commercials. And that makes advertisers happy. And the bottom line is this - say it with me now - Radio is not about music. It's about money.

Of course, the question now is: if radio only plays the songs that everybody wants to hear, how does new music ever get added? That answer involves more detail than I can write here, but involves people being surveyed by phone, and it also involves cross-marketing promotion from the record companies...

In the 1960s and 1970s it was very much a different story - radio was more progressive and free-form, and you could play Miles Davis next to Jimi Hendrix next to Neil Diamond...but that's another story altogether.

The best way for you to hear good and new and different music on the radio is to either a) seek out a public or college radio station, b) subscribe to Sirius or XM Satellite Radio, or c) listen to internet streaming stations like Radio Paradise. I currently record streams of Radio Paradise to mp3, and put them on my iPod to listen to in the car - so I can hear new and varied music without commercials.
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